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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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